They’ve just announced the official line-up for this year’s PEN World Voices Festival. If you want the whole run-down, click here. One of our authors, Quim Monzó, is attending this year. And in addition to the event he’s doing here in Rochester with his translator Mary Ann Newman on April 26th, he’s got several events lined up in New York as well: on the 29th with Co...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett.About the book, from the publisher:The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here: a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the twenty-first century.At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a young banker

Our pal and BGB Contributor Todd Moye’s new book has just been released by Oxford University Press (fancy!). Freedom Flyers: The Tuskeegee Airmen of World War II is based upon the author’s work directing the Tuskeegee Airmen Oral History Project here in Atlanta. My copy arrived in the mail yesterday, and I can’t wait

The oceans, the seas, and lakes and rivers along with ships, boats, rafts and submarines have provided authors with inspiration since Jason’s Argo and Noah’s Ark. Non-fiction books feature stories of almost unbelievable hardships, bravery and endurance. The names of these famous ships alone need little introduction – the Bounty, the Titanic and the Mary

Genre: Hard SF, Space Opera, Adventure Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Tor Books Publication Date: October 3, 2006 ISBN-10: 0765315432 ISBN-13: 978-0765315434 Author Website: Karl Schroeder Karl Schroeder’s Sun of Suns is an interesting mashup of fiction. It borrows bits and pieces from the great stories by C. S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian, the hard science of Vernor Vinge, and the a...

I’m delighted to be today’s stop of the first Spotlight Series tour. This is a blogger-created event done to increase awareness of small presses (much like the Classics Circuit does for classic authors), and their first publisher is Unbridled Books. Before this, I’d read four novels published by Unbridled, and I’d enjoyed all

France and I popped in on Von Allan’s book launch for The road to god knows… last Sunday to grab a few copies for the store and to get one for ourselves.   We ended up staying longer than anticipated and had a wonderful chat with the author himself on a number of subjects including, one of

Today, Literary Escapism is excited to welcome back Chloe Neill, author of the fabulous Chicagoland Vampires series – Some Girls Bite, Friday Night Bites and the soon to be released Twice Bitten.  However, today, we’re celebrating her foray into the young adult genre with Firespell. When Lily’s guardians decided to send her away to a fancy boarding school in Chicago, she was...

The Fourth Annual BSCreview Book Tournament is now officially under way. We have a last-minute replacement in the book roster.  One author asked that their book be withdrawn, so by popular request from our forum regulars Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Windup Girl will be joining the fray instead. Voting for round one is now open and will ...

Author makes shortlist for Hans Christian Andersen prize, and is also in contention for the £460,000 Astrid Lindgren award Next week could be a big one for David Almond. The Carnegie medal-winning British author is in the running for two of the most important international prizes in children's literature: the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen medal and the Astrid Lindgren memorial awa...